Homeopathic Materia Medica

KALMIA LATIFOLIA

(kalm)

(Mountain Laurel)
A rheumatic remedy. Pains shift rapidly. Nausea and slow pulse frequently accompanying. Has also a prominent action en the heart. In small doses, it accelerates the heart's action; in larger it moderates it greatly. Neuralgia; PAINS SHOOT DOWN-IS ARDS, WITH NUMBNESS. FULGURATING PAINS OF LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA. Protracted and continuous FEVERS, with tympanites. Paralytic
sensations; pains and achings in limbs accompany nearly every group of symptoms. ALBUMINURIA.

HeadVERTIGO; worse stooping. Confusion of brain. Pain in front and temporal region from head to nape and to teeth; from cardiac origin.

Female
Menses too early, or suppressed, with pain in limbs and back and inside of thighs. Leucorrhoea follows menses.

Back
Pain from neck down arm; in upper three dorsal vertebrae extending to shoulder-blade. Pain down back, as if it would break; in localized regions of spine; through shoulders. LUMBAR PAINS, OF NERVOUS ORIGIN.

Extremities
Deltoid rheumatism especially right. Pains from hips to knees and feet. PAINS AFFECT A LARGE PART OF A LIMB, or several joints, and pass through quickly. Weakness, numbness, pricking, and sense of coldness in limbs. PAINS ALONG ULNAR NERVE, index finger. Joints red, hot, swollen. Tingling and numbness of left arm.